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Includes a new interview with Amos Oz.Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a…

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant,…

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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the…

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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was…

Based on real people, this volume offers a collection of stories focusing on mingling history, invention, literary…

Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed…

Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration…

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists,…

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at…

One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotions, Professor Antonio Damasio shows how our…

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their…

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON`What conditions are…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the…

The perfect gift for Valentine's DayTRANSLATED BY TOM PAYNE AND INTRODUCED BY HEPHZIBAH ANDERSONThe Art of Love may have…

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Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved...' The Prince shocked…

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The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a…

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When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby…

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo…

• Rok vydání 2004

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror…

A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with…

This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses,…

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as…

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity . Every day, women…

A well-designed life means a life well-lived.…

The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the…

• Rok vydání 2019

An electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard. Haunted by nightmares, Cantu abandons the Patrol for…

• Rok vydání 2018

Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell…

The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou're British.…

• Rok vydání 2020

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea…

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the…

• Rok vydání 2010

In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and…

• Rok vydání 1967

Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. The Fashion System, published in France in…

`Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones... Hilarious' GlamourMeet Butterfly - loveable socialite, avid party-goer, inspired shopper…

• Rok vydání 1965

The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures,…

The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. The…

• Rok vydání 2017

By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This book traces…

• Rok vydání 2019

`Superb' William Boyd`Fascinating... An exceptional story of espionage and betrayal, thrillingly told' Philippe Sands`A…

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• Rok vydání 2021

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring…

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The…

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works\'James Wood is a…

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*`A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The…